Bicycle-saddle



(No Model.)

A. L. GARFORD. BICYCLE SADDLE.

No. 568,974. Patented Oct. 6, 1896.

MHZ/P272117]:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR L. GARFOR-D, OF ELYRIA, OI-IIO.

BICYCLE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,974, dated October6, 1896.

Application filed March 15, 1895. Serial No. 541,890. (No model.)

T0 61/ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR L. GARFORD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Elyria, in the county of Lorain and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in BicycleSaddles; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to bicycle-saddles, and particularly to the varietyof saddles which contain a rear seat-support and a front seatsupportconsisting of two parallel wires, and the object of my invention is toprovide novel, cheap, and easily-operated means for adjustablyconnecting said front and rear seat-supports.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of partshereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved saddle, and Fig.2 is a plan view thereof when a part of the seatleather is cut away.

Referring to the parts by letter, A represents the rear seat-support,which may be in any desired form and of any suitable material. As shown,the rear scat-support is made of fiat spring-steel, a form of rearsupport which is well known in this art. The rear end of the rearsupport is bolted or secured in some other suitable manner to the cantled of the saddle.

13 represents the front seat-support, which is made of spring-wire,doubled at its middle to form a loop 1), two substantially parallelstrands Z) Z), and the two ends of this wire enter sockets c c in asliding block 0. The front loop I) of the seat-support B engages withthe hook (I at the front end of the seat D.

The block 0 embraces the rear seat-support A, so that it may be movedalong said support. The precise form of this block will depend upon theform of the rear support upon which it is to slide. In the form shown itis provided with a slot 0', through which the support A passes and inwhich it is adapted to slide.

On the front end of the rear support A is a plate E, through which isformed a hole 6. This plate may be the upturned end of the spring, asshown; but this is a detail of the particular saddle shown, theessential characteristic of the relation between the seatsupport A andthe saddle-plate E being this, viz: that when the parts constituting thesaddle are assembled their relative positions shall be fixed.

F represents an adjusting-screw adapted to pass through a hole in theplate E and to screw into a threaded hole in the block C be tween thesockets which contain the ends of the spring B. The head f of said screwlies in front of the plate E and abuts against it.

The construction above described is obviously both simple and effective.The screw may be turned by a screw-driver operated from the front of thesaddle instead of from beneath and without removing the saddle from thebicycle, and by turning the screw the block C may be moved forward, thustightening the seat, or it may be permitted to move backward to loosenthe seat.

Having described my invention, I claim" In a bicycle-saddle, thecombination of the rear seat-support made of flat spring-steel havingits front end upturned, and a block which embraces and is adapted toslide upon said seat-support, with a curved wire spring having twostrands, the rear ends of which are seated in sockets in said block, anda screw which passes loosely through a hole in the upturned end of therear seat-support and which screws into a threaded hole in the saidblock, said screw having a head which abuts against the front side ofsaid upturned end, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR L. GARFORD.

Witnesses P. H. BOYNTON, FRED N. SMITH.

